The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has pledged to prioritize faith-based organizations if victorious in the 2024 general elections.

He underscored the substantial contributions of churches and Islamic groups in constructing schools and hospitals for the nation.

Dr. Bawumia emphasized that these organizations have surpassed many external development partners in their impact on Ghana and should be regarded as development partners.

“That golden age means we are going to give incentives to the faith based organizations to help government. There are lot of incentives we give to our external development partners. They bring in things duty free and so on but they don’t do as much for us as the faith based organizations. I am going to give a lot of incentives to the faith based organizations to help government”.

Dr. Bawumia made these remarks during a breakfast gathering with clergy members and Imams in the Eastern Region, commencing his nationwide campaign tour from Akropong.

He highlighted that external development partners receive several incentives, including duty-free imports, yet their contributions are not as significant as those of faith-based organizations.

“I want us (government ) and the faith based organizations to have a very very close relationship. I have said, if you look at the work that the faith based organizations, the churches and so on have done for Ghana, it is more than many of our external development partners will ever do for Ghana. Much much more. The schools they have built, the hospitals they have built but we always don’t treat our faith based organizations as partners in development. I want to bring a whole new chapter in the relationship between our churches, our faith based Islamic organizations and bring a golden age of that relationship between the church and faith based organizations and government”

Dr. Bawumia seeks to foster a "golden age" of collaboration between the government and faith-based organizations by providing them incentives to support governmental initiatives.